They hatched out Monday Oct. 24, 2011. I receivedthem Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011, Our wonderful mail lady brought them right to the house, This is the firsttime I've ever raised chickens, I have a great time,My husband built our coop out of nasty, bug infested, fungus eaten used wood, we did buy some new nails,at first he was putting old nails and straightening them,that got to being real time consuming, so he finely bought some. We did buy good paint and the fencing stuff, I didall the painting myself. We are proud of our made from scratch chicken coop.​